I translated the rules directly from the Dutch rule book, which indeed cause for confusion.

After some looking, I've found an English translation of the original gamerules. (I probably should have done that first.)

English version: "Bruno Faidutti's Citadels"
Dutch version: Machiavelli

http://desktopgames.com.ua/games/3/citadelsrules.pdf

Maybe this could help and I shall review what I wrote in the game soon and will try to make the rules more clear. Once you've figured out how to play one round in the game, it will get easyer and more fun later.

Thx for the comment and for checking out the game. :)

Maybe we're dumb, but we can't really figure out how it's played. The rules are kind of confusing. :'(